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Prince

Prince

Prince

Prince

Yep. There is no denying MJ's talent, (Thriller is still one of my favorite albums) but even he can't touch the musical genius that is Prince!!

I once heard they were supposed to collaborate on a song for one of MJ's albums, but for whatever reason it never happened. That would have been gold!

MJ offered to do a duet on "Bad," but Prince didn't like the lyrics. I think there was a Prince song that they considered collaborating on, too.

I love all of those songs, but "Crimson and Clover" and "$" are my favourite songs on the album.

First of all this thread is a joke,right???

Second to the person who started it "How the hell you get this much time to start these kind of pointless threads?"I dont even get enough time to check my emails sometimes..

I dont know who's Prince so i ain't gonna vote and anyway there is nothing to poll about.You can do these kind of polls everyday but at the end Michael always proves your speculations wrong.. :xmasssanta: ..Im still shocked to see few ppl even voted in this Poll..hahahaaha

And ya by the way whoever this Prince guy is,this thread wud make sense only if he does 3 world tours with attendance of 5 million in each tour plus 70-80 million sales for one album and ya he shud do all this with all the huge controversies that Mike has been facing from long time.Then yeah I would definitely VOTE for such kind of Polls.Til then I got lot more masturbation and all i got is precious time..lol and I've already wasted like 15 min in reading this thread cuz internet is fuckin slow rightnow

It's cool that even Michael Jackson still has fanboys.

I don't believe you, but if you really haven't heard of Prince, it says more about you than it does about him, to be honest.

Michael Jackson has released two good albums in the past thirty years; Prince has released two good albums in the past two days.

Prince has had a much greater and more consistent career. He didn't release any bad albums in the eighties; while he was hit and miss throughout the nineties, he still released a handful of great albums, like The Gold Experience, Diamonds and Pearls, and O(+>; and Musicology, LotusFlow3r and MPLSoUNd are all excellent. Jackson hasn't released a great album in twenty-seven years.

Michael Jackson is a good performer; Prince is a musical genius.

Skeletal Lamping by of Montreal.

I still havent heard this how is it compared to Hissing Fauna and Gay parade?

I think it's Kevin's second best album overall. It's not quite as good as Hissing Fauna, but much better than The Gay Parade.

It's completely different stylistically to The Gay Parade; it's a continuation of the more electronic-oriented pop on Satanic Panic, The Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, rather than the twee sound The Gay Parade and his other earlier albums had. It's much more eclectic than any of his previous albums--there's funk, soul, R&B, Bowie-esque glam rock, experimental, a little noise rock, and a big Prince influence. Its structuring is completely different to anything he's done before; there's usually at least two or three different segments in each song.

At first, I was really disappointed with the album, but it's really grew on me since then; it's actually my top-played album on Last.fm. I think the structures of the songs hinder its accessibility--I needed at least three or four listens before I could get into it, and I know the same happned to a lot of other people--but once I got past that it became one of the my favourite aspects of the album.

It's definitely worth buying, or at least downloading. If not for the album itself, but at least for the four foot horse that comes free with the LP.

Skeletal Lamping by of Montreal.

Can't find it on YouTube, but there's an amazing version of "Main Man" on a T.Rex compilation called Rabbit Fighter: The Alternate Slider.

M.I.A. - Kala, Arular

The Gits - Frenching the Bully

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Nico - The Marble Index

Bjork - Homogenic, Post, Debut

Blondie - Parallel Lines

The Vaselines - The Way...

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah

Cat Power - The Covers Record, You Are Free

Hole - Live Through This

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Nancy Sinatra - Very Best Of..

Apollonia 6 - Apollonia 6

Tammi Terrell - Irresistible

Gloria Jones - Vixen

Bria Valente - Elixer

"In a Little While."

Led Zeppelin, the Doors and Pink Floyd.

I wish I hadn't wasted my time posting in this thread now.

I mean, who wants to listen to a fresh, interesting form of music that is constantly revealing innovative new forms and sides to it when you can listen to boring dad rock from the seventies over and over again?

MF DOOM's new album leaked yesterday. I've listened to it about three or four times today, on repeat, weirdly.

The production and beats on this album are incredible. I mean, really, really, Chronic-esque good, especially the J Dilla tracks, "Gazzillion Ear" and "Lightworks."

His lyrics on "Batty Boyz" are kind of unexpected and disappointing from someone like DOOM--I dunno, maybe it's a tongue-in-cheek joke song, just a vague and unfunny one. I'm pretty sure that that's a Residents sample, though, although I can't recall the title or its album and I can't find anything about it on the Internet--whatever it is, I really like it.

I haven't kept up with new released that much so far this year, but I think this would probably be my favourite along with Animal Collective.

Top five tracks, for me, are:

"Still Dope"

"Lightworks"

"Microwave Mayo"

"More Rhymin'"

"That's That"

Nobody is saying none of them have talent - I own a few myself.

Which ones, if you don't mind me asking?

Bottom line: If Snoop released a "best of" album in 20 years from now, it likely wouldn't sell more than 100 copies - and that's being generous. Nobody will know or care. When GNR released a "best of" - it surged to the top of the charts. It all comes down to being able to write timeless music, whose lyrics and sound will still be relevant to future generations - and not just to restless teenagers in today's high schools. Sorry, just being honest. The best musicians and artists don't use cheap gimmicks and pointless offensive lyrics just so that they can sell records - They write words that transcend generations and are as relevant to people 20 years from now as they are to people today.

You're right, GN'R did write timeless music. Not original or particularly interesting music, though. They were a great pop band who wrote great pop songs about sex, love, drugs, etc.--things most people have experience with when they're young. That's why their greatest hits album sold so much: all the "restless teenagers in today's high schools" could relate to them.

I think some of the lyrics on Nas's Illmatic or Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, for example, have more depth than the simple and fairly cliché lyrics of Guns N' Roses, who often used "cheap gimmicks" ("the most dangerous band in the world," the feuds with Vince Neil and Kurt Cobain, "Look at Your Game, Girl," etc. ) and "pointless offensive lyrics" ("One in a Million," "Get in the Ring") to sell records.

I believe in 20 years from now people will look back and shake their heads in amazement that kids thought it was "cool" to buy music that glamorized violence, spewed the N word, and called women "hos" throughout their music. But hey - I'll bet the rappers are laughing all the way to the bank. Nobody can accuse them of being dumb, that's for sure.

On a Guns N' Roses forum? Really?

... Who has given rise to some one the most important artists of our time?

Dre (Snoop, ODB, NWA, Eminem, 50 cent) ..

You consider these bands to be the "the most important artists of our time?" ...

Wow - I can only assume you're about 15 years old or have led an incredibly sheltered life when it comes to music.

All of those names created flavor-of-the-month music that people won't even remember in 15 or 20 years from now.

Snoop Dogg has been regularly releasing platinum albums since 1993; N.W.A. and Wu-Tang are two of the most acclaimed and influential groups of the eighties and nineties respectively, and their popularity is still going strong today; in 2000, Eminem, sold nineteen million copies of one album and earlier this year was still breaking sales records with his new single.

All Music Guide and Rolling Stone magazine both gave five star ratings to Snoop Dogg's debut. And N.W.A.'s debut. And Wu-Tang Clan's debut. And Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP. Are their writers all fifteen years old? Do they lead sheltered lives when it comes to music? Or is it both?

Nobody cares if you dislike a certain type of music for one reason or another, but your arguments are weak and typically ignorant of rock fans who don't listen to enough music--and just plain wrong, too; if you look at all the facts, none of the artists that guy mentioned is a "flavour of the month, who won't be remembered in x years." In fact, most of them have been around for over fifteen years and still have an enduring mainstream fanbase today.

Freddie Mercury

Bruce Springsteen

Axl Rose

Jeff Buckley

Michael Stipe

Outside of rock music: Michael Jackson, Avey Tare, Eminem and B.B. King.

That's honestly the worst song I've ever heard, joke or not.

Favorite genre outside of Rock (or favorite genre if it isn't rock): Pop

Favorite Led Zeppelin album: Led Zeppelin II

Favorite 80s act besides GNR: Prince, the Replacements or Sonic Youth

Slightly uncommon instrument you are interested in: None, really

Favorite musical decade: 00s or 70s

Favorite act post 2000: of Montreal

Band/Act you would love to love but just can't: Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, et al

Favorite female singer: Cat Power, Nico, Bjork or Yoko Ono

Favorite metal band: Honestly don't know

Favorite singer outside of Rock: Sam Cooke, early Marc Bolan, ODB or Kevin Coyne

Stones or Beatles: The Beatles

Favorite instrumentalist outside of Rock: Miles Davis

Favorite classical composer: Chopin

Ghost in the Graveyard is going to be huge.

Listening to it for the second time now and I'm beginning to really love it.

I wish they'd have made an experimental album, full of stuff like this and "Revolution 9."

1 & a half months early is a new record. Aside from the Chinese Democracy demos obviously.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? by of Montreal leaked almost five months before its release. One and a half months isn't that early, really.

I don't know much about it but based on what I've read, it's some mythical long-lost Beatles track that Paul McCartney has been talking about on and off for the past 20 years.

I think you mean "Carnival of Light," not this. Paul was talking about releasing that around the time he released the last Fireman album.

Anyway, it's cool that this has leaked. I wouldn't have expected it to be good, tbh, but it's really enjoyable. Maybe some of their other famously unreleased tracks, like "Carnival of Light" or the thirty-minute "Helter Skelter," will leak now.

I've listened to about half of the new album and really like it. "Everyone's at It" is probably her best song.

Her cover of "Straight to Hell" by the Clash on the new War Child compilation is really good, too.

70's for me!

Love myself abit of T-Rex.

Plus wasn't the almighty Dark Side Of The Moon released in '73?

I rest my case

T.Rex's 60s material was excellent, too, and easily stands up to their 70s material, except maybe A Beard of Stars, Electric Warrior and The Slider. Their first three albums get way too overlooked.

Captain Beefheart is the shit. Trout Mask Replica is just about as perfect as an album can be.

mf doom & ghostface - swift & changeable

Shit, I'd never heard of that before. Should be awesome.

Prince - Lotus Flow3r and MPLSound

Bria Valente - Elixir

Sonic Youth - The Eternal

Jay-Z - The Blueprint III

Blikk Fang -- a project between Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT and Kevin Barnes of of Montreal, which can't possibly be bad

Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware

Dr Dre - Detox

Morrissey - Years of Refusal (I think this has leaked but I've not got it yet)

Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand

New albums from the Strokes, Radiohead, David Bowie (if that rumour about Berlin was true) and Slash.